A while back, there was an HN Discussion of an article titled The code worked differently when the moon was full. The article itself is not really about the full moon impacting the code but some of the early comments talked about real world examples of that type thing, such as: Low tide impacting a thing. A biannual issue caused by the angle of the sun that one remark dubbed bughenge . And the observation: it's not astrology to suggest that the phase of the Moon could affect things on Earth seeing as how it's what causes tides. I enjoyed the discussion because I think there is something to astrology. I think it began as the types of observations noted above: That the phases of the moon have real world impact. Somewhere along the way, astrology seems to have left behind such practical observations that were apparently primitive efforts at weather prediction and turned into fortune telling of the sort found at carnivals. The plot for the movie Only You hinges on a ...
A Critique of Astrology